Newstalk 18th October 2020

by Sandra Leatherbarrow, edited by Declan Pearson

This week’s edition of Bolton Newstalk, recorded by our team of readers from the comfort of their own homes due to lockdown conditions. Our readers this week are Jill Leatherbarrow, Frances Clemmitt, Chris Abalain, and Tony McNeile.

3:38

01 Introduction
1:35

02 Off your bike!
3:22

03 Music therapy for Darley Court care home
2:09

04 Pregnancy Parters
2:34

05 Newborns at Smithills Farm
0:09

06 Producer Break
1:22

07 Rule Breakers
0:51

08 Suspicious Package
1:24

09 Court Appearance
2:47

10 Jail for drug dealer
0:10

11 Producer Break
1:51

12 Marauding Youths
1:56

13 Cemetery vandalised
0:40

14 Teenager caught twice in two days
0:51

15 Abandoned car ablaze
0:10

16 Producer Break
1:28

17 Expansion for Bolton firm
1:54

18 Bolton links with Connecticut
3:58

19 Murder Trial
2:56

20 New free school
0:06

21 Producer break
1:10

22 Poems at railway station
4:01

23 Octagon in difficulty
1:28

24 Cineworld closing
1:28

25 New jobs at Home Bargains superstore
0:16

26 Producer Break
1:28

27 Nurseries commended
1:30

28 Low butterfly count
2:44

29 Child poverty level
1:43

30 National recognition for Bolton GP services
0:11

31 Producer break
2:02

32 Charity donation
2:39

33 Lions toy appeal
2:06

34 Jak Hickman injury
2:59

35 Adam Senior centre-back
0:17

36 Producer break
2:05

37 New takeaway business
2:50

38 Identity theft
2:21

39 Electric cars for children
0:46

40 Lucy's Pantry
0:55

41 Producer Break
2:13

42 Grundy Fold saga
3:36

43 Plan for new homes
2:58

44 Support from town fund
3:57

45 Council tax bombshell
0:59

46 Final thoughts and farewells
2:16

47 Henshaws 1
2:03

48 Henshaws 2